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HOLMAN J. HALE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOBACCO-SMOKING DEVICE.

`Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,564, dated February13, 1866.

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that I, HOLMAN J. HALE, of the city, county, and `State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in ColoringMcerschaum Iipes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled inthe art to make and use the saine, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part ot this specication, in which Figureil is a peripherical view of a pipe t which is applied an apparatus madeaccording to my invention. Fig.2 is an axial section of the pipe andapparatus.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The object of this invention is to give to smokingpipes known asmeerschaums7 the peculiar color which has hitherto been slowly andimperf'ectlyimparted to them only during many years of constant use insmoking tobacco in them; and it consists in covering' the bowl of thepipe with a close-fitting cover penetrated by a tube, through which,when the pipe is used, tobacco-smoke may pass and enter the pipe on itsway to the mouth of the person who is engaged in smoking. The tobacco tobe smoked is contained in any ordinary receptacle or bowl placed at theouter end of or otherwise connected with the tube, or it may be fixed onthe tube itsel'i`, according to the mode of using tobacco-cartridgesshown in the patent granted to me November 1, 1864.

The treatment herein set forth may be applied to other pipes besidesmeerschaums.

It is found in using meerschaums, or, in other words, tobacco smokingpipes made of the substance known by that name, that they gradually takeon a rich color, which rst makes its appearance on the stem and thengradually makes its way toward the bowl, which is the last to becomediscolored.

The degree of discoloration has become a test of the age of the pipe,because, as a general thing, the bowl is only colored after many yearsof usage as a tobacco-pipe. This coloring is the result of the use ofthe pipe in smoking tobacco, and may be caused by contactof the smoke ofthe burning tobacco with the material that composes the pipe and by itspenetration through such material, or may be caused by the condensationof' the smoke and by the absorption of the condensed matter in thematerial of the pipe. This toning and coloring ot' the pipe is muchadmired by smokers who use meerschaums, and by others, and it is asubject of ambition with them to possess a meerschauln of a deep color,the commercial value ot' a pipe being dependent on the depth of itscolor; but it is very rarely found that a meerschaum is colored up tothe edge of its bowl, and the reason why the change in color whichoccurs in the stem and in the lower part ofthe bowl does not usuallyextend to the rim of the bowl is supposed to be because the heatgenerated by the burning of the tobacco prevents the condensation of thesmoke at the upper part ofthe bowl, or because the smoke is not much incontact with that part of the bowl.

My invention is designed to impart the desired color to the whole pipe,the bowl as well as the stem, and to accomplish this result by means ofthe smoking of tobacco, and with rapidity. In order to effect thisresult I make a smoke-chamber of the'interior of the pipe and cause thetobacco, the smoke of whose combustion passes into the pipe, to beburned without the pipe, instead of within its bowl, as has beencommonly practiced.

A designates a pipe which is formed, according to the usual mode ofmaking pipes for smoking tobacco, with a bowl communicating with aperforated stem, the latter being provided, if desired, with a mouthpiece, B. Upon the top or mouth of the bowl I place a cover or cap, C,which may be of ivory, bone, or other suitable substance, and which hassecured to its under surface a cork or other suitable stopper, D,preferably of porous material, which lits within the rim ot' the bowl.The cover and the stopper are both perforated by a tube, E, which mayextend below the stopper a little way, and which tube has a screwthreadcut on its lower end to enable a washer, F, to be screwed up thereon, inorder to confine the stopper D to the cover C. The tube is extendedabove the cover, and is connected on its upper end to an ordinary bowlor receptacle in which tobacco may be smoked, or it may be connected toa heatradiating device,

G, like that shown in the drawings, whose ofce is to protect the tube bydispersing the heat of the burning tobacco, and which is particularlydescribed in the Letters Patent before referred to, granted to meNovember 1, 1864. The upper end of the tube extends above the radiatorto allow it to be attached to a tobaccocartridge, H, whose lower side orbottom is penetrated by the tube.

When the apparatus here shown is attached to a pipe the act of smoking acharge of tobacco or a tobacco-cartridge at the end of the tube E willcause the smoke of the burning tobacco to pass down through the tubeinto the pipe A, which thereby becomes a smokechamber, through which thesmoke circulates before it is drawn through the mouth-piece. The pipe A,through its whole extent, has a lower temperature than the smoke,because it is isolated from the burning tobacco or can tridge, and issurroundedby the atmosphere, which constantlycarx'ies off much of theheat imparted to the pipe by the warm smoke, and consequently some ofthesmoke becomes condensed before it can be drawn out ot' the pipe by theinhalation of the person using it, while the smoke is consta-ntly incontact with the whole interior surface ot' the pipe, which is thereforeexposed uninterruptedly to its peculiar action.

By the use of this apparatus in smoking tobacco,whetherin the formoftobacco-cartridges or of loose tobacco, (a supplementary bowl otordinary shape bein g. necessary in smoking the latter,) I am enabled tocolor a meerschaum pipe throughout its whole extent, the depth ot thetone being dependent on the length ot time the cover is used therewith,ordinarily a period of three to six weeks being sufficient to impart tothe whole of the pipe a beautiful rich toned color in the case of aperson who is a moderate smoker, the period being varied, however, bysuch conditions as the size of the pipe and by the quantity of tobaccoconsumed.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Coloringmeerschaums by subjectin g them to the action oftobacco-smokeinhaled orpassed through them, substantially as above set forth.

2. The cover or cap G, litted on the bowl of a pipe by means ot' aporous stopper or other convenient device, and perforated by a tubewhich enters said bowl, substantially as and for the purpose above setforth.

3. In combination, the cover or cap C, the tube E, and theheat-disperser or radiating' device Gr, substantially as shown.

' HOLMAN J. HALE.

W'itncsses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, (LL. TOPLIFF.

